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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Watch A Totally Bitchin’ Recap of Maple Grove’s 50th Anniversary Race

Our big gallery of photos from Maple Grove’s 50th Anniversary race got a ton of attention because Joe Grippo did a great job shooting them and because the race had a 100% awesome line up of...

Milestone: We Published Our 6,000th Blog Item This Morning – Who’d a Thunk?!

BangShift passed kind of a neat milestone this morning. It came quietly enough and like when the odometer of your car rolls past 100,000 miles no balloons fell from the ceiling, no indoor...

Icelandic Hillclimbing…You May Ignore the Laws of Physics, but The Laws of Physics Will Not Ignore You

When Ian Ellis sent us a link to a “Hillbilly Go Cart” Video, we were intrigued. But then we got all sidetracked with all the other crap that shows up on the side of the YouTube page and...

Camaro Parts Guru James “Floyd” Stinson, Founder of Firewheel Classics, Died at 65

Firewheel Classics, Texas’ largest Camaro restoration parts supplier, is located in Wylie Texas in a nice brick building just down the road from notable hot rod and performance companies like...

BS EXCLUSIVE: A Never Before Seen, Incredible Photo Sequence of John Bartunek’s Massive Pro Mod Wreck From 2009

(Photos by Denis LeBlanc/ActionRacingPhotos) – This is one of, if not the most incredible top end crash photo sequence we have ever seen. Shot at the 2009 Shakedown at E-Town by Denis LeBlanc,...

Richie Stevens Jr. Wins ADRL Extreme Pro Stock in the Car Safe BangShift Mustang

Okay, so maybe referring to the Richie Stevens Jr. driven Car Safe ADRL Extreme Pro Stock Mustang as BangShift sponsored is a stretch, but the gang does run the BangShift logo out back right by the...

Event Gallery: The 2012 GM Nationals at Carlisle, PA – Chevy, Olds, Caddy, Pontiac, Buick, Corvette — All here!

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – BangShift’s own Chevy loving lensmen Dave Nutting braved the sweltering heat and funnel cakes of Pennsylvania last weekend at the yearly gathering of all things...

Watch a John Deere Pulling Tractor’s Face Get Blown Off By an Exploding Turbo

Last week we showed you a violent pulling crash from the European circuit and today we’re going to show you what type of violence happens when a turbo that is shoving better than 100lbs of...

Watch: All Angles of 5th Gen Camaro and BMW Pro Drift Cars Wrecking In Turn 1 at Formula D Event at Wall Speedway

The Chevrolets are being dinged up at an impressive rate recently. Last week we showed you video of a Corvette owner burying his car onto the guardrail at the drags before ever making the starting...

eBay Find: An AMC M422 Mighty Mite – The Gnarly Mini-Jeep You Never Knew Existed!

With respect to cool and collectible old military trucks, they don’t come much smaller or more rare than the AMC M422 Mighty Mite, a tough little bastard designed to be flown into the front via...

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Nostalgia Drags Gallery: Maple Grove’s Epic 50th Anniversary Race Bash!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – The Grove turned 50 and they threw a helluva party…. Nitro Funny Cars, Alcohol Funny Cars, The Winged Express, 4 Jets, a Wheelstander and Bob...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Optima Face Off At Historic Road America Raceway – Killer Cars and Action!

(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) – Optima Batteries hosted another qualifier for the Optima Ultimate Streetcar Invitations  that takes place right after the SEMA show later this year. What...

MSD Introduces New Line of DynaForce Starters – High Performance, Light Weight, Lots of Applications

The dudes and dudettes at MSD have not been resting on their massive Atomic EFI success. As proof of that, they just rolled out a completely new line of starters that they are calling,...

Watch a Guy Crash His Z06 at the Drags Before Ever Getting to the Starting Line!

Yes, it is late to be posting stuff on a Friday, but frankly when we first saw this video we knew it would be something that BangShifters would want to see and we aim to please. We feel pretty bad...